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Vol. 82 Tuesday, No. 63 April 4, 2017 Pages 16287–16508 Vol. 82 Tuesday, No. 63 April 4, 2017 Pages 16287–16508 OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER VerDate Sep 11 2014 18:26 Apr 03, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4710 Sfmt 4710 E:\FR\FM\04APWS.LOC 04APWS mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with FED-WS II Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 63 / Tuesday, April 4, 2017 The FEDERAL REGISTER (ISSN 0097–6326) is published daily, SUBSCRIPTIONS AND COPIES Monday through Friday, except official holidays, by the Office PUBLIC of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408, under the Federal Register Subscriptions: Act (44 U.S.C. Ch. 15) and the regulations of the Administrative Paper or fiche 202–512–1800 Committee of the Federal Register (1 CFR Ch. I). 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VerDate Sep 11 2014 18:26 Apr 03, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4710 Sfmt 4710 E:\FR\FM\04APWS.LOC 04APWS mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with FED-WS III Contents Federal Register Vol. 82, No. 63 Tuesday, April 4, 2017 Agricultural Marketing Service Tennessee Advisory Committee, 16341 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Coast Guard Submissions, and Approvals, 16334–16335 PROPOSED RULES Safety Zones: Agriculture Department Fireworks Displays, Sector Key West, FL, 16327–16329 See Agricultural Marketing Service NOTICES See Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Meetings: See Farm Service Agency National Maritime Security Advisory Committee, 16407– See Forest Service 16408 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Commerce Department Submissions, and Approvals, 16335–16336 See International Trade Administration See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau NOTICES Comptroller of the Currency Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, NOTICES Submissions, and Approvals, 16471–16473 Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Assessment of Fees, 16473–16474 NOTICES Determinations of Regulatory Review Period for Purposes of Defense Department Patent Extension: NOTICES Lawsonia Intracellularis Bacterin Vaccine, 16337–16338 Meetings: Meetings: Defense Business Board, 16381–16382 Animal Disease Traceability System, 16336 Privacy Act; Systems of Records, 16382–16383 Antitrust Division Drug Enforcement Administration NOTICES NOTICES Changes under National Cooperative Research and Importers of Controlled Substances; Applications: Production Act: Xcelience, 16420 Cooperative Research Group on Consortium for NASGRO Development and Support, 16419 Energy Department National Shipbuilding Research Program, 16418 See Energy Information Administration Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, Inc., See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 16420 ROS-Industrial Consortium-Americas, 16420 Energy Information Administration Membership Changes under National Cooperative Research NOTICES and Production Act: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation, 16418– Submissions, and Approvals, 16383–16384 16419 Open Platform for NFV Project, Inc., 16419 Environmental Protection Agency Southwest Research Institute: Cooperative Research PROPOSED RULES Group on Energy Storage System Evaluation and 2016 Oil and Gas New Source Performance Standards for Safety II, 16419 New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources; Review, 16331–16332 Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Clean Power Plan; Review, 16329–16330 PROPOSED RULES Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B) Ethnicity and from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Race Information Collection, 16307–16321 Sources: Electric Generating Units, 16330–16331 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NOTICES NOTICES Requests for Approval of an Alternative Means of Emission Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Limitation: Submissions, and Approvals, 16403–16404 Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., LP, 16392–16399 Meetings: Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Farm Service Agency Special Emphasis Panel; Initial Review, 16403–16405 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Civil Rights Commission Submissions, and Approvals: NOTICES Generic Clearance for Collection of Qualitative Customer Meetings: Feedback on Farm Service Agency Service Delivery, Delaware Advisory Committee, 16340–16341 16338–16339 VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:20 Apr 03, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4748 Sfmt 4748 E:\FR\FM\04APCN.SGM 04APCN sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with FRONT MATTER CN IV Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 63 / Tuesday, April 4, 2017 / Contents Federal Communications Commission NOTICES RULES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Connect America Fund: Submissions, and Approvals: Universal Service Reform—Mobility Fund, 16297 Incidental Take of Marine Mammals During Specified Activities, 16415–16416 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Food and Drug Administration NOTICES PROPOSED RULES Applications: Color Additive Petitions: Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC, 16390–16391 Environmental Defense Fund, Earthjustice, Florida Gas Transmission Co., LLC, 16391–16392 Environmental Working Group, Center for Combined Filings, 16386–16390 Environmental Health, et al., 16321–16322 Complaints: Dynegy Marketing and Trade, LLC; Illinois Power Foreign Assets Control Office Marketing Co. v. Midcontinent Independent System NOTICES Operator, Inc., 16392 Blocking or Unblocking of Persons and Properties, 16474 Declaratory Orders; Petitions: GEL Texas Pipeline, LLC, 16387 Forest Service Initial Market-Based Rate Filings Including Requests for NOTICES Blanket Section 204 Authorizations: Meetings: Arkwright Summit Wind
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